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... satire against the city against the city women for aping the fashions of the court ladies must have been peculiarly gratify ing to the females of the Herbert family and the rest of Massinger's noble patrons and patronesses . - LAMB ...
... satire against the city against the city women for aping the fashions of the court ladies must have been peculiarly gratify ing to the females of the Herbert family and the rest of Massinger's noble patrons and patronesses . - LAMB ...
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... satire on the times ; but this is not as in Shakspere , where the natures evolve themselves according to their inci- dental disproportions , from excess , defi- ciency , or mislocation , of one or more of the component elements ; but is ...
... satire on the times ; but this is not as in Shakspere , where the natures evolve themselves according to their inci- dental disproportions , from excess , defi- ciency , or mislocation , of one or more of the component elements ; but is ...
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... satire , Marston . Marston was ap- parently a gentleman born and bred , well connected , well educated , possessed of some property , able to make testamentary dispositions , and probably in the latter part of his life , when Dekker was ...
... satire , Marston . Marston was ap- parently a gentleman born and bred , well connected , well educated , possessed of some property , able to make testamentary dispositions , and probably in the latter part of his life , when Dekker was ...
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... satirical design by patching and stitch- ing it into his unfinished scheme of tragedy . It may be assumed , and it is ... satire he was as a light weight pitted against a heavy weight is of course too plain , from the very first round ...
... satirical design by patching and stitch- ing it into his unfinished scheme of tragedy . It may be assumed , and it is ... satire he was as a light weight pitted against a heavy weight is of course too plain , from the very first round ...
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... satire , which Cleveland and Marvel and other subsequent writers car- ried into new applications , and which only expired among us with Swift . - CRAIK , GEORGE L. , 1861 , A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English ...
... satire , which Cleveland and Marvel and other subsequent writers car- ried into new applications , and which only expired among us with Swift . - CRAIK , GEORGE L. , 1861 , A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English ...
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Page 286 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou...
Page 269 - I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Page 284 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 411 - BARCLAY (ROBERT). An Apology for the True Christian Divinity AS THE SAME is HELD FORTH AND PREACHED BY THE PEOPLE, called in scorn QUAKERS...
Page 235 - I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.
Page 259 - The want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again.
Page 279 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Page 483 - True wit is nature to advantage drest; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest.
Page 494 - Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please : His motions all accompanied with grace ; And paradise was open'd in his face.
Page 198 - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.